In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.